Problem with Hyperthreading

[izzugotom]

:santa:

I have updated my GA-8IEXP MB to latest F9 issue for it. This MB has 845E brookdale chipset, and supports P4 3.06Ghz with Hyperthreading.

I fitted 530W Aopen[Fotron] PSU, and a P4 3.06Ghz processor. :argue:

I have excellent air cooling. With HP disabled, I have no problems, but with HP enabled I get lockups, has to switch off power, from time to time.

What is the most like cause of this ?? :bang head

Is hyperthreading worth bothering at present times ?? :cool:

[nikhsub1]

Yes it is good, but did you reinstall the system? If you were running without HT, then just turned HT on in the bios it could casue the system to throw a fit. What system are you using? Win2K and HT don't work that well FYI.

[izzugotom]

WIN XP-PRO....Did not re-install...

[CrystalMethod]

In your device manager, open the "computer" tab, if it says "ACPI Uniprocessor PC", that could be a potential problem. You need to update the driver to a multi-processor PC, if it isn't already enabled. Hopefully that will solve the problem. not saying that this is the cure, but it could be what's causing the problem.

[izzugotom]

Yes, the driver version is 5.1.2600.0....Is this correct....If I enable Hypertreading, it shows 2x processors....Is this correct.

I have not had time to look more deeply into it, but will disable all extra stuff & Services except windows and give it a try again.

[izzugotom]

This is very interesting:Processor much cooler.
I went to msconfig, disable all at startup, hide all microsoft services, then disabled the rest and reboot. I then reboot again and enabled Hypertreading. I then revoot 3x times, go msconfig and chose normal startup, reboot, reboot again.
I immediately saw a drop of 7 degrees C in the P4 temp, and it flies. But in eventviewer, I see this warning about pagefile:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.
Event ID 51...I never see this with hyperthreading disabled.....Something window-wise is causing this, cause it happened with all the other stuff disabled also..It looks like it happens at Boot into windows loading..[Nvidia drivers]

I think what might have caused the lockups, was a USB modem that does not have it's own chipset.. I am ussing a Serial port modem now, which tranfer data faster in any case. It did not happened so far.....

[izzugotom]

My room temp is now 16.4c and P4 3.06Ghz is now 20.5c, where it was about always at +11 above room temp. This is a good sign.......I was actually surprised to see the higher temp...This shows the new heatsink with copper insert is better...I messure the temp by drilling a hole in centre of copper right down to 2mm above processor.

[izzugotom]

Explanation
An input/output (I/O) request to a memory-mapped file failed and the operation was retried.

Microsoft explanation:
User Action
If these events are logged regularly on a primary system drive, replace the device. Otherwise, no user action is required.

I have 2x disks cloned....What do you think....Has this disk a problem.....Whithout HP, I never see this.....Difficult to think disk has a problem..

Disk is WD 40GB

[izzugotom]

This is the MS explanation of other error I get with the Pagefile one above:
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 9
Source: IdeChnDr
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_TIMEOUT
Message: The device, %1, did not respond within the timeout period.

Explanation
This is an Intel device.


User Action
Contact your hardware support provider.



Version: 5.0
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_TIMEOUT
Message: The device, %1, did not respond within the timeout period.

Explanation
This is an Intel device.

It locked up when I scanned with Adaware and Taskmanager open...If I scan with TM closed it pass through ??

[izzugotom]

I solved my main problem where if HT is enabled, the HDD goes ito a visious loop just before Welcome screen on bootup, by uninstalling the processor, reboot, go in BIOS & enable HT, bootup, and this problem was gone. I never uninstaled processor before.

It now only locks where HT is enabled and intensce diskwork is going on like defrag and scanning with NAV.

It now pases Sisandra processor burn, dont lockup in jasc PSP and passes old Gunlock benchmarking...3D test on DXDIAG also passes.

So I think this WD disk is not capable of superfast actions.....Wiil use newer cloned disk this weekend to prove disk.